GameStop Reviews

1) Contract: - Generally low salaries - No bonus scheme promoting high performers - Very basic benefit package - Long working hours 2) Work conditions: - Unpaid Overtime and Bank Holidays - Need to be highly flexible (timewise) and ready to travel with short notice - Workload beyond capacity 3) Career Progress, Personal Development Plan and Performance Review: - No PDP process - No clear educational grant scheme subsidising external studies and courses - Salary review process not related to personal performance - No clear promotion process. Also newly created (usually senior) positions not advertised either internally or externally. 4) Management vs. Regular Employees relationship: - No clear Strategy, Mission, Vision, Values - Unhealthy proportion of highly paid executives vs. regular staff on substandard packages - Nepotism and Favouritism - highly paid roles, generous salary increases, promotions, non-work related expenses are usually reserved for groups of people who are either close friends, favourites or family. - No two-way communication - No Work Ethic - incidents of bullying, undermining staff and offensive language - Managers and Leaders don’t praise teams for their achievements but distant from them to eventually get credit for the team success themselves and allow their own further promotion - Management and HR not willing to address escalated employees issues. 5) Staff vs Staff: Not respecting of general work ethic rules and professional cooperation standards within business environment: - No culture of cooperation and communication, no teamwork, undermining others, no knowledge sharing practices (even if this is impacting business continuity) so one is consequently able to highlight own skills, become “irreplaceable” and consequently become a management favourite. - Unhealthy competition on flexibility and long hours worked for free to promote own value to the business - Conflicts related to unfair promotion - promotions not related to skills, education, experience or achievements but either to the fact of becoming a new management favourite or to threats of such favourite that in case he/she is not promoted further he/she quits the job - Stress caused by inability to deliver high quality work as a team due to high turnover and lack of experience, skills and relevant education of new hires. - Lack of manners (punctuality, offensive language, hygiene)

It is quite frankly, ridiculous, to get your daily 20 page essay of an email from certain area/field managers when the company is facilitating a miserable work environment. I'm being very serious here, motivational and contrived emails from deluded upper management with titles like 'SELL, SELL, SELL TEAM IRELAND!', when the majority of 'team' is depressed and/or unmotivated. Although there are some lovely managers, there is a clique culture that exists amongst most of them. Private texting groups gossiping about members of staff. Conscious efforts being made by new managers to get older members of staff to quit. Majority of hours being given to a manager's favourite member of staff. Behaviour in some cases that borders on bullying. This in addition to staff being constantly threatened by head office to sell, sell, sell an embarrassing amount of 'extras' at the till. Incentive to sell? Well if you don't reach your targets, you will be disciplined. Simple as. The cherry on the cake, is that all members of staff in a store (bar the manager) receives minimum wage. No bonuses, no raises for long term members of staff. Nothing. I have witnessed keyholders managing stores (due to a lack of managers), doing managerial duties.. rosters/payroll, inventory counts, opening/closing, 40+ hours a week.. and still being paid minimum wage. The stores are in a chaotic state. New managers aren't being trained well and it shows. And the only people who seem to be oblivious to this chaos are upper management.